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livingthewritelife-things:

thisnewjoe:

lizardsfromspace:

One of the interchangeable ghouls running in 2024 is talking up his plan to tie voting rights to passing a civics test & it’s amazing watching people discuss this in neutral terms

A tweet from CBS News: Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing a constitutional amendment that requiring citizens 18 to 24 to pass a civics test in order to vote - the same one immigrants take to become naturalized U.S. citizens.ALT

A lot of the response to this is “oh, that’s great, next let’s restore civics education in schools”, but the entire point is that they’re not going to improve civics education. The age range gives a hint: this is a ploy to disenfranchise young voters, by, presumably, demanding they pass a test the state won’t train them for in order to get rights granted by the states. It’s like saying “oh, yes, literacy tests for voting makes sense, it’ll really inspire the South to educate black people”. It uh. Didn’t. And I think many of the people agreeing know that and support it bc it’s disenfranchising, but some seem to just agree bc it’s “COMMON SENSE” and they’re not digging any deeper?

This would be a civics test authored by a far right administration, to be clear. The tests we give immigrants are already propagandistic nonsense, imagine that in the hands of the “slavery taught people valuable skills” crowd

Also, his amendment would allow young people who can’t pass the test to vote if they join the military. This is a “service guarantees citizenship” amendment

He's proposing a constitutional amendment that would require citizens 18 to 24 to pass a civics test in order to vote — the same one immigrants take to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Under his proposal, young Americans could, as an alternative, perform six months of military or first-responder service. But if none of these requirements are met, they would have to wait until they turn 25 before they could vote in their first election.ALT

Many young people don’t realize that the entire reason we don’t have civics, and why we have such a public degradation of critical thinking, come specifically from Republican efforts to sabotage education. Their goal in state legislatures for generations has been to destroy education to maintain control at any cost. Most states have grown out of that, but not all, and many states still have recovered important classes like civics, the arts, and other things that add value to life without also feeding into capitalist employment properties where they take science and math and wage compensation wars against everyone.

It’s the conservatives that keep healthcare in the US tied to employment, and why we don’t have paid sick days for all the sick days someone might need. Conservative values are an illness that will bring the dark ages back if we don’t keep pressure on to unfuck our governance structures.

Also because Republicans are terrified of Gen Z’s voting power and want to stop that at any cost.

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flamingthespian:

corvigae:

corvigae:

I keep having to tear down extremely predatory/misleading Scien.tology flyers in my school’s art building. This is the third fucking time I’ve ripped the fuckers up and I’m getting Real Fucking Tired of it.

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If you see shit like this DO NOT call the number, do not do anything to interact with these fucking people. Take down the posters if you’re able to. They do NOT want to help you. They are a literal fucking cult who openly despise psychology and any actual proven mental health science, and are actively trying to trick mentally/emotionally vulnerable people into joining.

The red flags here are “Hubbard,” the name of their founder, and “dianetics,” the crackpot theory they teach for “auditing” your sins from your past lives.

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I’d like to add what @jaspertheshark said in the tags because I feel it’s important